Curriculum Vitae

Nikolaus Correll, PhDAssociate Professor

Appointments

from 11/17 Director, Interdisciplinary Research Theme on Multi-functional Materials, Collegeof Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder (on sabbatical 2018/2019)

June 2017 Visiting Professor, Institute FEMTO-ST, CNRS, Universite Bourgogne-FrancheComte, France.

from 05/17 Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Colorado atBoulder.

08/09–05/17 Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Colorado atBoulder.

Education

11/07–08/09 Post-doc, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT. Advisor:Daniela Rus.

10/03–10/07 Dr. es science, Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique FederaleLausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

10/00–04/03 Dipl. Ing. ETH, Electrical Engineering, Eidgenossische Technische HochschuleZurich (ETHZ), Switzerland.

Honors and Awards

• “Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers’ (JSME) Presidents Award”, Industrial assemblycompetition at the World Robot Summit 2018

• College of Engineering and Applied Science Textbook Recognition Award for “Introductionto Autonomous Robots”, 2018.

• 1st price, Blue-Sky Track International Symposium on Robotics Research for the contribution“Materials that Make Robots Smart”, 2017.

• 2016 Provost Faculty Achievement Award

• Winner of the RoboSoft Manipulation Challenge, Livorno, Italy, April, 2016 with PhD stu-dents Nicholas Farrow and Yang Li.

• Best Paper Award at the 3rd International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence,Paderborn, Germany, June 2016.

• Best Paper Award at the Int. Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, November2014.

• NASA Early Career Faculty Space Tech Research Grant 2012.

• “Best in Show” and “Best in Most Inclusive and Usable Design” at the International Sympo-sium for Wearable Computing Design Exhibition (ISWC), Newcastle, UK, 2012.

• NSF CAREER Award 2012.

• Best Paper Award at the 10th Int. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Osaka,Japan, 2008.

• Best Paper Award at the 8th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous RoboticSystems, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2006.

Publications

Stars (*) next to an author’s name indicate CU graduate students, a plus sign (+) indicatesundergraduate students or highschool interns.

Edited Books, Journals, and Forewords

1. Michael Otte*, Mac Schwager and Nikolaus Correll. Proceedings of the 14th Symposiumon Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Springer Proceedings on Advanced Robotics(SPAR), Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2018.

2. Nikolaus Correll. Foreword to “Material-integrated Intelligent Systems: Sensorial Materials,Adaptive Metacomposites and the fundamentals of realizing material-integrated intelligence”by Stefan Bosse, Manuel Collet, Dirk Lehmhus, Walter Lang, and Matthias Busse, Wiley-VCH, 2018.

3. Alcherio Martinoli, Francesco Mondada, Nikolaus Correll, G. Mermoud, M. Egerstedt, M. AniHsieh, L. Parker, K. Støy. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: The 10th InternationalSymposium (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics), 636 pages, Springer, 2013.

4. Nikolaus Correll and Roderich Gross. Special Issue on Swarm Robotics, Springer NeuralComputing & Applications Journal 19(6), 2010.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. A. McEvoy* and N. Correll. Shape-changing materials using variable stiffness and distributedcontrol. Soft Robotics. Published online 12 Oct 2018, doi:10.1089/soro.2017.0147

2. Y. Li*, J. Klingner*, and N. Correll. Distributed Camouflage for Swarm Robotics and SmartMaterials. Autonomous Robots, 2018, doi:10.1007/s10514-018-9717-6, 16 pages.

3. R. Patel*, R. Cox*, and N. Correll. Integrated proximity, contact and force sensing usingelastomer-embedded commodity proximity sensors. Autonomous Robots, 42(7):1443-1458,doi:10.1007/s10514-018-9751-4.

4. M. Otte* and N. Correll. Dynamic teams of robots as ad hoc distributed computers: reducingthe complexity of multi-robot motion planning via subspace selection. Autonomous Robots,2018, .

5. D. Hughes*, J. Lammie*, N. Correll. A robotic skin for collision avoidance and affective touchrecognition. Robotics & Automation Letters3 (3), pp. 1386–1393, 2018.

6. Y. Menguc, N. Correll, R. Kramer and J. Paik. Will robots be bodies with brainsor brains with bodies? Science Robotics, 2:12, eaar4527 (2 pages), 2018.

7. H. Profita*, M. Lightner, N. Correll, S. Kane. Textile-Based Assistive Wearables. The Journalon Technology and Persons with Disabilities, 40–49, April, 2017.

8. R. Shepherd, Nikolaus Correll, S. Morin, B. Mosadegh, C. Onal, K. Petersen, P. Polygerinos,M. Cianchetti, and M. Tolley. Soft robotics: Review of Fluid-Driven Intrinsically Soft Devices;manufacturing, sensing, control, and Applications in Human-Robot Interaction. AdvancedEngineering Materials, doi:10.1002/adem.201700016, 2017.

9. D. Hughes*, H. Profita, S. Radzihovsky+ and Nikolaus Correll. Intelligent RF-Based GestureInput Devices Implemented using e-Textiles. Sensors 17(2):219, doi:10.3390/s17020219, 19pages, 2017.

10. H. McCreery*, Nikolaus Correll, M. Breed, S. Flaxman. Consensus or deadlock? Conse-quences of simple behavioral rules for coordination in group decisions. PLOS One 11(9):e0162768,2016, 20 pages.

11. Nikolaus Correll, K. Bekris, D. Berenson, O. Brock, A. Causa, K. Hauser, K. Okada, A. Ro-driguez, J. Romano, and P. Wurman. Analysis and Observations From the First Amazon Pick-ing Challenge. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 10.1109/TASE.2016.2600527,2016.

12. A. Kanakia*, B. Touri and Nikolaus Correll. Modeling multi-robot task allocation withlimited information as global game. Swarm Intelligence, 10(2):147–160, 2016.

13. D. Hughes* and Nikolaus Correll. Texture Recognition and Localization in Amor-phous Robotic Skin. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Special issue on BioinspiredSoft Robotics, 10(5):055002 (16 pages), 2015.

14. Erik Komendera*, Nikolaus Correll. Precise Assembly of 3D Truss StructuresUsing MLE-based Error Prediction and Correction. International Journal ofRobotics Research, Special issue on ISER 2014, 34(13):1622–1644, 2015.

15. H. Hosseinmardi*, A. Mysore*, N. Farrow*, Nikolaus Correll and R. Han. Distributed Spatio-Temporal Gesture Recognition. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems,10(3):17 (19 pages), 2015.

16. A. McEvoy* and Nikolaus Correll. Materials that couple sensing, actuation,computation and communication. Science, 347(6228) (9 pages), 2015.

17. D. Coleman*, I. Sucan, S. Chitta, Nikolaus Correll. Reducing the Barrier to Entry of ComplexRobotic Software.Journal of Software Engineering in Robotics, 5(1):3–16, Special issue on BestPractice in Robot Software Development, 2014.

18. M. McEvoy* and Nikolaus Correll. Thermoplastic Variable Stiffness Composites with Em-bedded Sensing, Actuation, Communication and Control. Journal of Composite Materials,49(15):1799–1808, 2014.

19. Erik Komendera*, D. Reishus, Nikolaus Correll (2013): Precise Truss Assembly using Com-modity Parts and Imprecise Welding. Intelligent Service Robotics, Special Issue on IEEE In-ternational Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TEPRA), 7(2):93–102.

20. Michael Otte* and Nikolaus Correll. C-FOREST: Parallel Shortest-Path Planning with SuperLinear Speedup. IEEE Transaction on Robotics, 29(3):798–806, 2013.

21. Nikolaus Correll, R. Wing* and D. Coleman*. A One Year Introductory Robotics Curriculumfor Computer Science Upperclassmen. IEEE Transactions on Education 56(1):54-60. SpecialIssue on Robotics Education. Taskin Padir and Sonja Chernova, editors, 2013.

22. Nikolaus Correll and Alcherio Martinoli. Modeling Self-Organized Aggregation Dynamics.International Journal of Robotics Research, Special Issue on Stochasticity in Robotics andBiological Systems. Harry Asada and Vijay Kumar, editors. 30(5):615-626, 2011.

23. A. Prorok, Nikolaus Correll and Alcherio Martinoli. Multi-level Spatial Modeling for Swarm-Robotic Systems. International Journal of Robotics Research, Special Issue on Stochasticityin Robotics and Biological Systems. Harry Asada and Vijay Kumar, editors. 30(5):574-589,2011.

24. Nikolaus Correll, N. Arechiga, A. Bolger, M. Bollini, B. Charrow, A. Clayton, F. Dominguez,K. Donahue, S. Dyar, L. Johnson, H. Liu, A. Patrikalakis, T. Robertson, J. Smith, D. Soltero,M. Tanner, L. White, Daniela Rus. Indoor Robot Gardening: Design and Implementation.Intelligent Service Robotics. Special Issue on Robotics in Agriculture. 3(4):219-232, 2010.

25. Nikolaus Correll and Daniela Rus. Peer-to-Peer Learning in Robotics Education: Lessonsfrom a Challenge Project Class2. ASEE Computers in Education Journal. Special Issue onNovel Approaches in Robotics Education. 1(3):60-66, 2010.

26. S. Rutishauser, Nikolaus Correll, and Alcherio Martinoli. Collaborative Coverage using aSwarm of Networked Miniature Robots. Robotics & Autonomous Systems. 57(5):517-525,2009.

27. P. Amstutz, Nikolaus Correll, and Alcherio Martinoli. Distributed Boundary Coverage witha Team of Networked Miniature Robots using a Robust Market-Based Algorithm. Annals ofMathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Special Issue on Coverage, Exploration, and Search,Gal Kaminka and Amir Shapiro, editors, 52(2-4):307-333, 2009.

28. Nikolaus Correll and Alcherio Martinoli. Towards Multi-Robot Inspection of Industrial Ma-chinery — From Distributed Coverage Algorithms to Experiments with Miniature RoboticSwarms. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 16(1):103-112, 2008.

29. J. Halloy, G. Sempo, G. Caprari, C. Rivault, M. Asadpour, F. Tache, I. Saıd, V. Durier, S.Canonge, J.M. Ame, C. Detrain, N. Correll, A. Martinoli, F. Mondada, R. Siegwart, and J.L.Deneubourg. Social integration of robots in groups of cockroaches to control self-organizedchoice. Science 318(5853): 1155-1158, 2007.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

1. J. Klingner, N. Ahmed and N. Correll. Fault-Tolerant Covariance Intersection for LocalizingRobot Swarms. In Proc. of the Int. Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems(DARS), Boulder, CO, 2018.

2. C. Schunk, L. Pearson, E. Acome, T. Morrissey, N. Correll, C. M. Keplinger, M.E. Rentschler,J.S. Humbert, “System Identification and Closed-Loop Control of a Hydraulically AmplifiedSelf-Healing Electrostatic (HASEL) Actuator”, IEEE International Conference on IntelligentRobots and Systems, Madrid, Spain, October, 2018.

3. N. Correll and C. Heckman. Materials that Make Robots Smart. In International Symposiumon Robotics Research (ISRR), Puerto Varas, Chile, 2017. 1st price, Blue Sky track.

4. R. Han, N. Correll, K. Pister, P. Dutta. Wireless Robotic Materials. In 15th ACM Conferenceon Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Delft, The Netherlands, 2017.

5. D. Hughes*, A. Krauthammer+ and Nikolaus Correll. Recognizing Social Touch Gesturesusing Recurrent and Convolutional Neural Networks. Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation(ICRA), 2017, to appear.

6. N. Farrow*, L. McIntire+ and Nikolaus Correll. Functionalized Textiles for Interactive SoftRobotics. Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017, to appear.

7. R. Cox and N. Correll. Merging Local and Global 3D Perception using Contact Sensing.AAAI Spring Symposium on Interactive Multi-Sensory Object Perception for EmbodiedAgents, Stanford, CA, 2017.

8. Y. Li, J. Klingner, Nikolaus Correll. Distributed Camouflage for Swarm Robotics and SmartMaterials. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), London, UK, 2016. Accep-tance rate <25% (presented in full) Nominated for Best Paper Award

9. D. Hughes, Nikolaus Correll. Distributed Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Activ-ity Recognition in Wearable Robotics. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS),London, UK, 2016. Acceptance rate <25% (presented in full) Nominated for Best PaperAward

10. A. Randall+, J. Klingner*, and Nikolaus Correll. Simulating Chemical Reactions using aSwarm of Miniature Robots. Submitted to Int. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior(SAB), 2016, 12 pages. Acceptance rate ≈ 40%.

11. Radhen Patel* and Nikolaus Correll. Integrated force and distance sensing forrobotic manipulation using elastomer-embedded commodity proximity sensors.“Robotics: Science and Systems” (RSS), 2016, 10 pages. Acceptance rate ≈ 20%.Finalist for “Best Paper” and “Best Student Paper” Award

12. M. McEvoy* and Nikolaus Correll. Distributed Inverse Kinematics for Shape-ChangingRobotic Materials . In: 3rd International Conference on System-integrated Intelligence: NewChallenges for Product and Production Engineering , Paderborn, Germany, 2016, 8 pages.Accpt. rate 55%. Best Paper Award

13. D. Hughes*, N. Farrow*, H. Profita* and Nikolaus Correll. Detecting and Identifying TactileGestures using Deep Autoencoders, Geometric Moments and Gesture Level Features. ACMInt. Conf. on Multimodal Interaction, Recognition of Social Touch Gestures Challenge,Seattle, November, 2015, pages 415–422. Acceptance rate ≈ 20%.

14. T. Caldwell and Nikolaus Correll. Fast Sample-Based Planning of Dynamic Systems by Zero-Control Linearization-Based Steering. Int. Symposium on Robotics Research, Sestri Levante,Italy, September, 2015, 12 pages. Acceptance rate n.a..

15. N. Farrow* and Nikolaus Correll. A Self-Contained Soft Pneumatic Actuator that Can SenseGrasp and Touch. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS), Hamburg, Germany, September, 2015, pages 2317–2323. Acceptance rate ≈ 40%.

16. D. Coleman*, I. Sucan, M. Moll, K. Okada, and Nikolaus Correll. Experience-Based Planningwith Sparse Roadmap Spanners. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation(ICRA), Seattle, May 2015, pages 900–905. Accpt. rate 41%.

17. L. Ma*, M. Ghafarianzadeh*, D. Coleman*, Nikolaus Correll and G. Sibley. SimultaneousLocalization, Mapping, and Manipulation for Unsupervised Object Discovery. IEEE Interna-tional Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, May 2015, pages 1344–1351.Accpt. rate 41%.

18. H. Profita*, N. Farrow*, Nikolaus Correll. Flutter: An Exploration of an Assistive GarmentUsing Distributed Sensing, Computation and Actuation. In: Proc. of the ACM Conferenceon Tangible Embodied Interaction (TEI), Stanford, CA, 2015. Pages 359–362. Accpt. rate28%.

19. A. Kanakia*, J. Klingner*, Nikolaus Correll. A Response Threshold Sigmoid Function Modelfor Swarm Robot Collaboration. In: In Proc. of Int. Symp. on Distributed AutonomousRobotic Systems (DARS), Springer Tracts on Advanced Robotics Vol. 112, Daejeon, Korea,November 2014, pages 193–206. Accpt. rate 48%. Best Paper Award

20. D. Hughes*, H. Profita*, Nikolaus Correll. SwitchBack: An On-Body RF-Based GestureInput Device. In: 18th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), pages63–66, Seattle, WA, September 2014. Accpt. rate 25%.

21. T. Caldwell, D. Coleman*, Nikolaus Correll. Optimal Parameter Identification for DiscreteMechanical Systems with Application to Flexible Object Manipulation. In: IEEE/RSJ In-ternational Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago, IL, September2014, pages 898–905. Accpt. rate 46%.

22. J. Klingner*, A. Kanakia*, N. Farrow, D. Reishus, Nikolaus Correll. A Stick-Slip Omnidirec-tional Drive-Train for Low-Cost Swarm Robotics: Mechanism, Calibration, and Control. In:IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago, IL,September 2014, pages 846–851. Accpt. rate 46%.

23. J. Harriman*, M. Theodore, Nikolaus Correll. endo/exo — Making Art and Music with Dis-tributed Computing. 14th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression(NIME), pages 383–386, London, UK, 2014. Accpt. rate 25%.

24. Michael Otte*, Nikolaus Correll. C-FOREST: Parallel Shortest-Path Planning with SuperLinear Speedup. 24th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling(ICAPS), pages 532–535. Journal presentation track, Portsmouth, NH, 2014. Accpt. rate25%.

25. A. McEvoy*, Erik Komendera* and Nikolaus Correll. Assembly Path Planning for StableRobotic Construction. IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical RobotApplications (TEPRA), Boston, MA, April 2014, 6 pages. Accpt. rate n.a.

26. Erik Komendera*, J. Dorsey, W. Doggett and Nikolaus Correll. Truss Assembly and Weldingby Intelligent Precision Jigging Robots. IEEE International Conference on Technologies forPractical Robot Applications (TEPRA), Boston, MA, April 2014, 6 pages. Accpt. rate n.a.

27. M. Kasper*, Nikolaus Correll and T. Yeh. Abstracting Perception and Manipulation in End-User Robot Programming using Sikuli. IEEE International Conference on Technologies forPractical Robot Applications (TEPRA), Boston, MA, April 2014, 6 pages. Accpt. rate n.a.

28. D. Hughes* and Nikolaus Correll. A Soft, Amorphous Skin that can Sense and LocalizeTexture. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 1844–1851,2014. Accpt. rate 48%.

29. N. Farrow*, J. Klingner*, D. Reishus and Nikolaus Correll. Miniature Six-channel Rangeand Bearing System: Algorithm, Analysis and Experimental Validation, pages 6180–6185.International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014. Accpt. rate 48%.

30. Nikolaus Correll, N. Dasan+ and N. Farrow (2013): Distributed User Interaction System fora Self-Organizing Smart Wall. Tangible Embodied Interaction (TEI), pages 245-246, 2014.Accpt. rate 27%.

31. Michael Otte*, Nikolaus Correll and E. Frazzoli. Navigation with Foraging. IEEE/RSJInternational Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages 3150–3157, Tokyo, JP,November 2013. Accpt. rate 43%.

32. Erik Komendera*, D. Reishus, Nikolaus Correll (2013): Precise Truss Assembly using Com-modity Parts and Imprecise Welding. In: IEEE International Conference on Technologiesfor Practical Robot Applications (TEPRA), Boston, MA, 2013, and NASA technical reportNF1676L-16252, 6 pages. Accpt. rate 60%.

33. Nikolaus Correll, N. Farrow* and S. Ma*. Honey Comb: A platform for computational roboticmaterials (Studio). Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and EmbodiedInteraction (TEI), pp 419–422, Barcelona, Spain, February, 2013. Accpt. rate n.a.

34. J. Jeong*, J. Mulligan, and Nikolaus Correll. Trinocular Visual Odometry for DivergentViews with Minimal Overlap. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Robot Vision (WoRV),pages 229–236, Clearwater Beach, FL, January, 2013. Accpt. rate 47%.

35. S. Ma*, H. Hosseinmardi*, N. Farrow*, R. Han and Nikolaus Correll. Establishing Multi-Cast Groups in Computational Robotic Materials. IEEE International Conference on Cyber,Physical and Social Computing, 6 pages, Besancon, France, 2012. Invited paper.

36. K. Sugawara, D. Reishus, and Nikolaus Correll. Object Transportation by Granular Con-vection Using Swarm Robots. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Baltimore, MD,Springer Verlag, November, 2012, 12 pages. Accpt. rate 42%.

37. Nikolaus Correll, C. Wailes*, and S. Slaby. A One-hour Curriculum to Engage Middle SchoolStudents in Robotics and Computer Science using Cubelets. Distributed Autonomous RoboticSystems, Baltimore, MD, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics Vol. 104, Springer Verlag,November, 2012, pages 165–176. Accpt. rate 42%.

38. H. Hosseinmardi*, R. Han, and Nikolaus Correll. Bloom Filter-Based Ad Hoc Multicast Com-munication in Cyber-Physical Systems and Computational Materials. The 7th InternationalConference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), Lecture Notes inComputer Science Volume 7405, 2012, pp 595–606. Invited paper.

39. V. Rai*, A. van Rossum, Nikolaus Correll. Self-Assembly of Modular Robots from finitenumber of modules using Graph Grammars. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ InternationalConference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 4783–4789, San Francisco, CA,September, 2011. Accpt. rate 32%.

40. A. Derbakova, Nikolaus Correll and Daniela Rus. Decentralized Self-Repair to Maintain Con-nectivity and Coverage in Networked Multi-Robot Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE Inter-national Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp 3863–3868, Shanghai, China,May 2011. Accpt. rate 49%.

41. Michael Otte* and Nikolaus Correll. Any-Com Multi-Robot Path Planning: MaximizingCollaboration for Variable Bandwidth. In The 10th Int. Symp. on Distributed AutonomousRobotic Systems (DARS), Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Springer Tracts in Ad-vanced Robotics, Vol. 83, 2013, pp 161-173, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2010. Accpt.rate 39%.

42. D. Sutton+, P. Klein*, Michael Otte* and Nikolaus Correll. Object Interaction Language(OIL): An Intent-based Language for Programming Self-Organized Sensor/Actuator Net-works. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),pages 6113–6118, October 2010. Accpt. rate 58%.

43. Nikolaus Correll, N. Arechiga, A. Bolger, M. Bollini, B. Charrow, A. Clayton, F. Dominguez,K. Donahue, S. Dyar, L. Johnson, H. Liu, A. Patrikalakis, T. Robertson, J. Smith, D. Soltero,M. Tanner, L. White, Daniela Rus. Building a Distributed Robot Garden. In IEEE/RSJInternational Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp 1509-1516, St. Louis,MO. Finalist for NTF Best Paper Award. Accpt. rate 54%.

44. Jacob Beal, Nikolaus Correll, L. Urbina and J. Bachrach. Behavior Modes for Random-ized Robotic Coverage. In Proceedings of the 2nd Int. Conf. on Robot Communication andCoordination (ROBOCOM), pp 1-6, Odense, Denmark, 2009. Accpt. rate n.a.

45. Nikolaus Correll, Daniela Rus, J. Bachrach and D. Vickery. Ad-hoc Wireless Network Cov-erage with Networked Robots that Cannot Localize. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics andAutomation (ICRA), pp 3878 - 3885, Kobe, Japan, May, 2009. Accpt. rate 43%.

46. T. Lochmatter, P. Roduit, C. Cianci, N. Correll, J. Jacot and A. Martinoli. SwisTrack — AFlexible Open Source Tracking Software for Multi-Agent Systems. International Conferenceon Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp 4004–4010, Nice, France, 2008.

47. N. Correll, M. Schwager and D. Rus. Social Control of Herd Animals by Integration of Arti-ficially Controlled Congeners. Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Simulation of AdaptiveBehavior (SAB), Osaka, Japan, 2008. Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)5040, pp 437–447. Best Paper Award.

48. N. Correll. Parameter Estimation and Optimal Control of Swarm-Robotic Systems: A CaseStudy in Distributed Task Allocation. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),pp 3302–3308, 2008.

49. N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Robust Distributed Coverage using a Swarm of MiniatureRobots. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp 379–384, Rome, Italy,April 2007.

50. N. Correll, G. Sempo, Y. Lopez de Meneses, J. Halloy, J.-L. Deneubourg, and A. Martinoli.SwisTrack: A tracking tool for multi-unit robotic and biological research. In IEEE/RSJ Int.Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp 2185–2191, Beijing, China, Oct. 2006.

51. N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Towards optimal control of self-organized robotic inspectionsystems. In 8th Int. IFAC Symp. on Robot Control (SYROCO), 6 pages, Bologna, Italy,September 2006.

52. N. Correll and A. Martinoli. System identification of self-organized robotic swarms. In Int.Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), pages 31–40, Minneapolis, MN,USA, 2006. Springer Distributed Autonomous Systems VII, Maria Gini and Richard Voyles,editors. Best Paper Award.

53. N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Modeling and analysis of beacon-based and beaconless policiesfor a swarm-intelligent inspection system. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation(ICRA), pp 2488–2493, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005.

54. N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Modeling and optimization of a swarm-intelligent inspectionsystem. In Int. Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), pp 369–378,Toulouse, France, 2004. Springer Distributed Autonomous Systems VI, 2007, Raja Chatilaand Rachid Alami, editors.

Editor-Reviewed Journal/Magazine Articles

55. Nikolaus Correll and Roderich Gross. Guest Editorial: From Swarm Robotics to SmartMaterials. Special Issue on Swarm Robotics, Springer Neural Computing & ApplicationsJournal 19(6):785-786, 2010.

56. Nikolaus Correll. Invited book review for Dejan Milutinovic and Pedro Lima, “Cells andRobots: Modeling and Control of Large-Size Agent Populations”, Springer Tracts on Ad-vanced Robotics 2007. IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Volume 28, Number 5, pp 140–141,October 2008.

57. Nikolaus Correll and Alcherio Martinoli. A Challenging Application in Swarm Robotics:The Autonomous Inspection of Complex Engineered Structures. Swiss Society of AutomaticControl Bulletin, 2 pages, Peter Gruber, editor, Number 46, 2007. Invited paper.

Conference Proceedings based on peer-reviewed abstracts

58. J. Segil, R. Patel, Y. Xiong, M. Schmitt, R. Weir, and N. Correll. Force Sensing ProstheticFinger Tip using Elastomer-Embedded Commodity Infrared Proximity Sensor, MyoelectricControls Symposium (MEC), New Brunswick, 2017.

59. Nikolaus Correll. Manufacturing of Multifunctional soft composites with integrated proximityand tactile sensing Conference 21st International Conference on Composite Materials, Xi’an,China, 2017.

60. Radhen Patel*, Jorge Canardo Alastuey* and Nikolaus Correll. Improving grasp perfor-mance using in-hand proximity and force sensing. Int. Symposium on Experimental Robotics(ISER), Tokyo, Japan, 2016. Accpt. rate 50%

61. Andy McEvoy*, Nikolaus Correll. Shape Change Through Programmable Stiffness. Inter-national Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Marrakech, Morocco, 2014, SpringerTracts in Advanced Robotics (109):893–907, Springer Verlag, 2015. Oussama Khatib, VijayKumar, Ani Hsieh, editors. Accpt. rate (poster) 80%.

62. Timothy Caldwell, David Coleman*, Nikolaus Correll. Robotic Manipulation for Identifica-tion of Flexible Objects. In: International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER),Marrakech, Morocco, 2014, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (109):133–147, SpringerVerlag, 2015. Oussama Khatib, Vijay Kumar, Ani Hsieh, editors. Accpt. rate (oral) 54%.

63. Erik Komendera*, Nikolaus Correll. Precise Assembly of 3D Truss Structures Using EKF-based Error Prediction and Correction. In: International Symposium on ExperimentalRobotics (ISER), Marrakech, Morocco, 2014. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (109):507–521, Springer Verlag, 2015. Oussama Khatib, Vijay Kumar, Ani Hsieh, editors. Accpt. rate(oral) 54%.

64. A. McEvoy*, N. Farrow*, Nikolaus Correll. Toward computational smart materials withcontrollable stiffness. In: 19th International Conference on Composite Materials, 11 pages,Montreal, Canada, July, 2013.

65. J. Dorsey, W. Doggett, Erik Komendera*, Nikolaus Correll, R. Hafley, and K. Taminger. AnEfficient and Versatile Means for Assembling and Manufacturing Systems in Space, 19 pages,AIAA SPACE 2012 Conference & Exposition, 2012.

66. Nikolaus Correll, C. Onal, H. Liang, E. Schoenfeld and Daniela Rus. Soft Autonomous Ma-terials - Using Programmed Elasticity and Embedded Distributed Computation, 10 pages.In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), New Delhi, India, Decem-ber 2010. Oussama Khatib, Vijay Kumar, Gaurav Sukhatme, editors. Springer tracts onadvanced robotics, vol 79, 227–240, 2014.

67. Michael Otte* and Nikolaus Correll. Any-Com Multi-Robot Path Planning with Commu-nication Constraints and Dynamic Team Sizes, 10 pages. In International Symposium onExperimental Robotics (ISER). Oussama Khatib, Vijay Kumar, Gaurav Sukhatme, editors.New Delhi, India, December 2010. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics Volume 79, pages743–757, 2014.

68. N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Comparing coordination schemes for miniature robotic swarms:A case study in boundary coverage of regular structures, 12 pages. In Int. Symp. on Ex-perimental Robotics (ISER), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2006. Springer Tracts in AdvancedRobotics (STAR) 39:471–480, 2008. Oussama Khatib, Vijay Kumar, and Daniela Rus, edi-tors. Student travel fellowship award.

69. N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Collective inspection of regular structures using a swarmof miniature robots. In Int. Symp. on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Singapore, June2004. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) 21:375–385, 2006, Oussama Khatib andMarcelo Ang Jr., editors.

Peer-Reviewed chapters in books and collections

These works are not associated with a conference/symposium/workshop proceeding.

70. N. Correll. Robotic Materials for Robot Autonomy. In Robotic Systems and AutonomousPlatforms, Elsevier, Shawn Walsh and Michael Strano, editors. To appear.

71. R. Patel*, R. Curtis*, B. Romero+, N. Correll. Improving grasp performance using in-handproximity and contact sensing. In Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition 2016,Communications in Computer and Information Science, Volume 816, pages 146–160, SpringerVerlag, Yu Sun and Joseph Falco, editors, 2018.

72. R. Patel, J. Segil and N. Correll. Manipulation using the “Utah” prosthetic hand: Therole of stiffness in manipulation. In Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition 2016,Communications in Computer and Information Science, Volume 816, pages 107–16, SpringerVerlag, Yu Sun and Joseph Falco, editors, 2018.

73. Nikolaus Correll and Heiko Hamman. Probabilistic Modeling of Swarming Systems. SpringerHandbook of Collective Intelligence, chapter 74, pages 1421–1430. Invited paper.

74. Nikolaus Correll. The Robot in the Garden. In: Proceedings of the 2010 Dumbarton Oak’ssymposium on “Technology and the Garden”, Michael Lee, editor. Dumbarton Oaks ResearchLibrary and Collection (7 pages). Invited paper, Harvard University Press.

75. Jacob Beal, Stefan Dulman, Kyle Usbeck, Mirko Viroli, and Nikolaus Correll. Organizing theAggregate: Languages for Spatial Computing. In Formal and Practical Aspects of Domain-Specific Languages: Recent Developments, 66 pages, Marjan Mernik, editor, IGI Global, 2013.Invited paper.

76. Nikolaus Correll and Daniela Rus. Architectures and control of networked robotic systems.In Handbook of Collective Robotics, pp 81–104, Serge Kernbach, editor, Pan Stanford Pub-lishing, 2013. Invited paper.

77. Gregory Mermoud, Amanda Prorok, Loic Matthey, Christopher Cianci, Nikolaus Correll andAlcherio Martinoli. Large-Scale Experiments in Aggregation and Self-Assembly. In Handbookof Collective Robotics, pp 231–260, Serge Kernbach, editor, Pan Stanford Publishing, 2013.Invited paper.

78. Francesco Mondada, Alcherio Martinoli, Nikolaus Correll, A. Gribovskiy, Jose Halloy, RolandSiegwart and J.-L. Deneubourg. A General Methodology for the Control of Mixed Natural-Artificial Societies. In Handbook of Collective Robotics, pp 547–586, Serge Kerbach, editor,Pan Stanford Publishing, 2013. Invited paper.

Peer-Reviewed Workshop Papers

79. . Hughes, and C. Heckman, and N. Correll. Terrain Sensitive Tires for Autonomous Driving.Material Robotics Workshop at Robotics: Science and Systems, July 2017.

80. . Hughes and N. Correll. In-Material Computation of High-Bandwidth Sensor Signals inRobotic Skin. The Robotic Sense of Touch: From Sensing to Understanding Workshop atIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 29aASJune 3, 2017.

81. Timothy Caldwell, Nikolaus Correll (2015): Zero-Control Linearization-Based Steering forSample-Based Planning of Dynamic Systems. In: Workshop for Optimal Robot MotionPlanning at ICRA’15, 2 pages, 2015

82. Nikolaus Correll, Richard Voyles. Robotic Materials: From smart polymers to computationalmetamaterials. In: Proceedings of Robot Makers workshop in conjunction with Robotics:Science and Systems (RSS), 6 pages, Berkeley, CA, 2014. Invited paper

83. Nikolaus Correll, Nicholas Farrow*, Ken Sugawara, Michael Theodore. The Swarm Wall:Toward Life’s Uncanny Valley. In: K. Goldberg, H. Knight, P. Salvini (Ed.): IEEE Inter-national Conference on Robotics and Automation, Workshop on Art and Robotics: Freud’sUnheimlich and the Uncanny Valley, 2 pages, 2013. Accpt. rate 50%.

84. Michael Otte* and Nikolaus Correll. The Any-Com Approach to Multi-Robot Coordination.In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Net-work Science and Systems Issues in Multi-Robot Autonomy (NETSS), 4 pages, Anchorage,USA, 2010.

85. Nikolaus Correll and Alcherio Martinoli. Modeling Self-Organized Aggregation in a Swarm ofMiniature Robots. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshopon “Collective Behaviors inspired by Biological and Biochemical Systems”, 6 pages, Rome,Italy, April, 2007.

86. Nikolaus Correll, Christopher Cianci, Xavier Raemy, and Alcherio Martinoli. Self-OrganizedEmbedded Sensor/Actuator Networks for “smart” Turbines. In IEEE/RSJ InternationalConference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Workshop “Network Robot System: Towardintelligent robotic systems integrated with environments”, 6 pages, Beijing, China, October2006.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Videos, Posters, and Demos

87. Jacob Segil, Radhen Patel*, Yanyu Xiong+, Marie Schmitt, Richard Weir, Nikolaus Cor-rell. Force Sensing Prosthetic Finger Tip using Elastomer-Embedded Commodity InfraredProximity Sensor. Myoelectric Controls Symposium (MEC), New Brunswick, 2017.

88. Nikolaus Correll. Materials that couple sensing, actuation, computation and communication.Gordon Conference on Multifunctional Materials and Structures, Ventura, CA, January 2016.Invited poster.

89. Helen McCreery* and Nikolaus Correll. “Know when you’re beaten: efficient cooperativetransport requires either a directional bias or that outnumbered individuals give up quickly.”,Biological Distributed Algorithms Workshop, associated with Distributed Computing 2014.October, Austin, Texas.

90. J. Kim*, Mike Kasper*, Tom Yeh, Nikolaus Correll. SikuliBot: Automating Physical InterfaceUsing Images. In 27th ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST),pages 53–54, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2014.

91. Dana Hughes*, N. Farrow*, Nikolaus Correll. Distributed Texture Identification and Localiza-tion in Artificial Skin. In: 2013 International Workshop on Soft Robotics and MorphologicalComputation, 1 page, Monte Veritas, CH, 2013.

92. Nicholas Farrow*, E. Cornell+, Nikolaus Correll. Bioinspired Active Camouflage Using Arti-ficial Chromatophores. In: 2013 International Workshop on Soft Robotics and MorphologicalComputation, 1 page, Monte Veritas, CH, 2013.

93. H. Profita*, Nicholas Farrow*, and Nikolaus Correll. Flutter. In Adjunct Proceedings of the16th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Newcastle, UK, pages 44-46,June, 2012. Best in Show and Best in most Inclusive and Usable Design

94. A. Cephers+, I. Kushnir+, Michael Otte*, C. Lewis, Nikolaus Correll. Brain ComputerInterfaces. In AAAI Video Competition, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2010.

95. H. Balakrishnan, N. Correll, J. Eriksson, S. Lim, S. Madden and D. Rus. PCP: The PersonalCommute Portal. In 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’08), Raleigh, NC, USA, November 2008.

96. N. Correll, G. Sempo, Y. Lopez de Meneses, J. Halloy, J.-L. Deneubourg, and A. Martinoli.SwisTrack: A tracking tool for multi-unit robotic and biological research. In Proc. of theIEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), page 8, Beijing, China,October 2006.

Technical Reports

97. Michael Otte* and Nikolaus Correll. Path Planning with Forests of Random Trees: Paral-lelization with Super Linear Speedup. University of Colorado at Boulder CU-CS 1079-11, 8pages, 2011.

98. Erik Komendera*, Dustin Reishus, and Nikolaus Correll. Assembly by Intelligent Scaffolding.University of Colorado at Boulder CU-CS 1080-11, 8 pages, 2011.

99. Neeti Wagle* and Nikolaus Correll. Multiple Object 3D-Mapping using a Physics Simulator,6 pages, Technical report CU-CS 1069-10, July, 2010.

100. N. Correll. 6-DOF Visual Servoing Using the Lie Group of Affine Transformations. ISRNLUTFD2/TFRT–5690–SE, June 2002, Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute ofTechnology, Lund, Sweden.

Theses

101. N. Correll. Coordination Schemes for Distributed Boundary Coverage with a Swarm ofMiniature Robots: Synthesis, Analysis and Experimental Validation. PhD Dissertation.Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, 2007. Nominated for best EPFL PhD thesis.

102. N. Correll. Collaborative Exploration and Coverage. Master’s Thesis, Collective RoboticsGroup, California Institute of Technology/Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal In-stitute of Technology, Zurich, 2003.

Patents

1. Nikolaus Correll. Measuring distance and contact force during robotic manipulation. Provi-sional No. 62/322,469. Priority date April 11, 2016.

2. Dana Hughes*, Halley Profita*, and Nikolaus Correll. On-Body RF-Based Gesture InputDevice. No. WO2016040938 A1, March 16, 2016. (Priority date September 12, 2014).

Funding

Correll is the Principal Investigator on all of the below grants except otherwise noted, attractingextra-mural funds in excess of $3,000,000, with more than $2,750,000 as PI.

Pending proposals

1. $120,265 (CU Share) “Adaptive Control System for Material Handling Robots”, from DMDIIPI: M. Crivella (Boeing corporation) with Northwestern University, Southwestern ResearchInstitute and OmnicO AGV Inc. Recommended for funding.

Funded research

1. $125,000 “Dismantling Rubble Pile Asteroids with AoES (Area-of-Effect Soft-bots)”, NASANIAC, Jay McMahon (PI), Kurt Maute (Co-PI) and Nikolaus Correll (Co-PI), 2017.

2. $94,000 “Next-generation autonomous manipulation for collaborative robotics”, AdvancedIndustries Accelerator (AIA) grant (State of Colorado) with matchin funds from CU Boulder’sTechnology Transfer Office, N. Correll (PI), 2017.

3. $20,000 “Workshop on Robotic Materials”, N. Correll (PI), ARO and AFOSR joint funding,co-organized with R. Shepherd (Cornell) and K. Pister (Berkeley), 2016.

4. $62,411, NIST, “High-DOF Planning for Assembly Processes”, subcontract to South WestResearch Institute, PI: Shaun Edwards, 2016.

5. $504,521, AFOSR, Distributed Algorithms for Stiffness and Shape Changing ComputationalMeta-Materials, Correll (PI), 2015.

6. $232,928 “EAGER: Paper Mechatronics: Creating High-Low Tech Design Kits to PromoteEngineering Education”, PI: Sherry Hsi (UC Berkeley), Co-PIs: Mike Eisenberg and NikolausCorrell, CU Boulder, from NSF. (Correll’s share $10,000), 2014.

7. $8,000 REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Supplement to NSF CAREER (1year) from the NSF, 2014.

8. $49,945 “Exploring a Uniform Modeling Framework for Material-centric, Morphological Com-putation”, Correll (PI) from ARO, 2014.

9. $259,634 “Assistive wearable technology for the deaf based on a modular networking architec-ture supporting high-bandwidth sensing and distributed control”, Correll (PI), Richard Han(Co-I), from DARPA TTO, 2014.

10. $11,000 REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Supplement to “NRI-Large: Collab-orative Research: Soft Compliant Robotic Augmentation for Human-Robot Teams” (1 year)from the NSF, 2013.

11. $600,000 “Autonomous Food Production”, NASA Early Career Fellowship from NASA, 2012-2015. (Excludes $20,000 cost sharing provided by the CS department.), 2012-2015.

12. $233,849 “NRI-Large: Collaborative Research: Soft Compliant Robotic Augmentation forHuman-Robot Teams”, PI: Daniela Rus, MIT, Co-PIs: Nikolaus Correll, CU Boulder, RobertWood, Harvard University, from NSF, 2012-2017.

13. $23,935 “Career-Life Balance” supplement to NSF CAREER, 2012.

14. $12,000 “Single-DOF STEM Arm” with Altius Space Machines (lead), Roccor LLC, EclipticEnterprises Corporation, ReliAscent LLC from DARPA, Phoenix Program, 2012.

15. $8,000 REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Supplement to “CAREER: Modelingand Design of Composite Swarming behaviors” (1 year) from the NSF, 2012-2013.

16. $120,000 “EAGER: Centralized Control of Large-Scale Distributed Sensor/Actuator Net-works: Self-organizing Amorphous Facades” from NSF, 2012-2013.

17. $360,000 “Self-Assembly and Self-Repair of Structures with Stability and Resource Con-straints” (3 year grant) from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2012-2015.

18. $501,710 “CAREER: Modeling and Design of Composite Swarming Behaviors” (5 year grant)from the National Science Foundation, 2012-2017.

19. $3,328 “Mobile robot Competition Platform for Supporting Teaching and Outreach” fromthe Engineering Excellence Fund ($1370 matching funds from the Department of ComputerScience), 2011.

20. $1,065 “Hardware for a Workshop on Embedded System Design for First Year students” withTanya Ennis from the Engineering Excellence Fund ($300 matching funds from the Collegeof Engineering), 2011.

21. $4,681 “An Antropomorphic Robotic Torso with 3D Perception Capabilities” with Sam Pot-tinger from the Engineering Excellence Fund ($1000 matching funds from the EngineeringHonors Program), 2011.

22. $2,300 “Software for Undergraduate Robotics Education” from the Engineering ExcellenceFund (50% departmental fund-matching), 2009.

23. $2,500 “Robotics Infrastructure for Andrews Hall” from the Engineering Excellence Fund($500 fund-matching by Andrews Hall), 2009.

Post-doc and student fellowships managed by the PI

1. $268,000 “Self-Assembly of Structures in Space” from NASA. NSTR fellowship awarded toErik Komendera, 4 year grant, currently in year 4 (graduation date November 7, 2014).

2. $270,000 “Improving Habitability, Mood & Diet through Bioregenerative Food Systems” fromNASA. NSTR fellowship awarded to Heather Hava, 4 year grant, currently in year 3.

3. $269,156 “Guided Self-Assembly of Computational Robotic Materials” with Dustin Reishus,sub-recipient of an NSF grant awarded to the Computing Research Association, 2010-2012.

Invited talks

1. “Materials that Make Robots Smart”, Technical University of Munich, July 2018.

2. “Materials that Make Robots Smart”, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center, January2018.

3. “Material-integrated Intelligence for Robot Autonomy”, Institute FEMTO-ST, CNRS, Uni-versite de la France-Comte, June, 2017.

4. Plenary Speaker at the Int. Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, London,November 2016.

5. “Material-integrated Intelligence for Robot Autonomy”, Department of Mechanical Engineer-ing, University of Missouri at Columbia, October 21, 2016.

6. “Material-integrated Intelligence for Robot Autonomy”, NASA Biomimicry Summit and Ed-ucation Forum, Cleveland, Ohio, August 3, 2016.

7. Keynote Speaker at the 3rd International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence: NewChallenges for Product and Production Engineering, Paderborn, Germany, June 2016.

8. “Material-integrated Intelligence for Robot Autonomy”, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lau-sanne (EPFL), June 22, 2016.

9. “Material-integrated Computation for Robot Autonomy”, University of California San Diego,ECE Department, March 31, 2016.

10. “Material-integrated Computation for Robot Autonomy”, Robotics Seminar Series, North-western University, February 29, 2016.

11. “Robotic Materials”, Robotic Seminar Series, Purdue University, October 30, 2015.

12. “From Swarm Robotics to Smart Materials”, International Conference on Mathematical Mod-eling and Applications (ICMMA), January 10, 2015, Tokyo, Japan.

13. “Robotic Materials”, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute ofTechnology, December 4, 2014.

14. “Robotic Materials”, Sheffield Center for Robotics, University of Sheffield, November 21, 2014.

15. “Distributed Information Processing in Materials that Think”, NSF Workshop on Self-organizingParticle Systems at the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), January 8,2014.

16. “Distributed Information Processing in Materials that Think”, Department of Physics, CUBoulder, September 11, 2013.

17. “From swarm robotics to a ‘Liquid that thinks”’, TEDxPearlStreet at CU Boulder, March 21,2013.

18. “From Swarm robotics to Smart Materials”, Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO, March 1, 2013.

19. “From Personal Computers to Personal Robots — Challenges in Computer Science Educa-tion”, Computer Science Department, CU Boulder, October 4, 2012.

20. “Any-Com Multi-Robot Navigation” at the ONR China Lake multi-use technology sympo-sium, May 24, 2012.

21. “Robotic Polycultures” at TEDx Frontrange in the Rialto theater in Loveland, CO, May 10th,2012.

22. “Probabilistic Models for Cognition in Swarming Systems”, Institute for Cognitive Science,CU Boulder, April 9, 2012.

23. “Any-Com Multi-Robot Path-Planning”, Computer Science Department, University of Ne-braska at Omaha, November 11, 2012.

24. “Robots in the Landscape”, at the “Technology and the Garden” Symposium, DumbartonOaks, Washington DC, May 7, 2011.

25. “Multi-level Modeling of Aggregation Dynamics”, Math department colloquium series, Uni-versity of West Virgina, March 10, 2011.

26. “Building a Robot Garden”, University of Denver, September 24, 2009.

27. “Building a Robot Garden”, NSF HEMBI workshop, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology, September 15, 2009.

28. “Networked Teams of Robots and Sensors: Theory and Practice”, Media Laboratory, Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology, July 15, 2009.

29. “Networked Teams of Robots and Sensors: Theory and Practice”, Department of ComputerScience, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 9, 2009.

30. “Modeling and Design of Large-Scale Sensor-Actuator Networks”, Workshop on Multi-RobotControl, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany, February 18, 2008.

31. “Coordination Schemes for Distributed Boundary Coverage with a Swarm of Miniature Robots:Synthesis, Analysis and Experimental Validation”, Self-Organizing Systems Research Group(Radhika Nagpal), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July 30, 2008.

32. “Distributed Robotics: From Science to Systems”, Willow Garage, Menlo Park, CA, May 28,2008.

33. “Comparing Coordination Schemes for Distributed Boundary Coverage: Synthesis, Analysis,and Experimental Validation”, Informatik VI: Robotics and Embedded Systems, TechnicalUniversity of Munich, Munich, Germany, October 16, 2007.

34. “Comparing Coordination Schemes for Distributed Boundary Coverage: Synthesis, Analysis,and Experimental Validation”, Abteilung Bildverstehen, Institut fur Parallele und VerteilteSysteme, Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany, October 15, 2007.

35. “Distributed Boundary Coverage using a Swarm of Miniature Robots”, Workshop on Au-tonomous Computing in Smart Environments, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, November24, 2006.

Media Coverage and Public Appearance (Selection)

Correll’s work receives extensive media coverage in press, film, and online outlets including theAssociated Press, Discovery channel, Popular Mechanics, NY Times, The Economist, and ColoradoPublic Radio, as well as CU publications including “CU Engineering Magazine”, “CU Connections”and “Spotlight on Research”. A more comprehensive list with hyperlinks is available online1.

Articles in the popular press (Selection)

1. Nikolaus Correll. Crowdfunding of science leads to innovation and better public engagement.A. Rathi (Ed.): The Conversation (UK), 2014.

2. Nikolaus Correll. Space exploration can drive the next agricultural revolution. The Conver-sation (UK), 2013. Syndicated on space.com, phys.org and others.

Press (Selection)

1. “This Skateboard folds in half to stow in a backpack thanks to the power of air pressure”, byAlexandra Ossola, Popular Science, June 30, 2015

2. “Next-Generation Robots Offer Sophisticated Mobility, Manipulation, and Sensing Capabili-ties”, by John Edwards, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, September, 2013.

3. “Der Automat als Herdentier” by Helga Rietz, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, June 26, 2013.

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4. “Menu for Mars”, CU Engineering Magazine, April 2013.

5. “CU Boulder Team to work on space food project”by B. Anas, The Daily Camera, 06/04/2012.

6. “CU Boulder ’Swarm Wall’ the product of art, robotics” by B. Anas, The Daily Camera,06/01/2012.

7. “Ping Pong Ball-Sized Robots Can Swarm Together To Form A Smart Liquid” by RebeccaBoyle, Popular Science, December 18, 2012.

8. “CU Boulder ‘Swarm Wall’ the product of art, robotics”by B. Anas, The Daily Camera, June,2012.

9. “3 New Farm Bots Programmed to Pick, Plant, and Drive” by Erik Sofge, Popular Mechanics,September, 2009.

10. “Robogardner” by MIT News Staff, MIT Technology Review, May/June, 2009.

11. “I, robot - and gardener: MIT droid tend plants”, by Melissa Trujillo, Associated Press(worldwide syndication), April 10, 2009.

12. “In an Age of Robots, One to Clean the House? Still but a Dream” by Natalie Angier. NewYork Times, November 24, 2008.

13. “Swarm Theory”, by Peter Miller. National Geographic, July 2007, National GeographicSociety, Washington, DC, USA.

14. “New SWIS Army - Developing collective intelligence”, by Bill Weaver. Scientific Computing,July 2006, Advantage Business Media, Rockaway, NJ, USA.

15. “L’intelligence collective des robots”, Sciensationnel - Cerveau et Conscience, No. 5. EPFLoutreaching magazine for young scientists.

Film and television (Selection)

1. “Advances in Robotic Materials stuck in lab” by Peter Banda, The Associated Press (video),syndicated by TV stations and online outlets across the US.

2. “Robots are taking over the garden” by L. Clarizio, The American Institute of Physics andIvanhoe Productions, broadcasted as a segment of “Discoveries and Breakthroughs InsideScience” on TV stations throughout the US.

3. “Super-Cockroach”, by Pascal Cuissot and Benjamin Turquet, 52min. International broadcastin various broad-public scientific programmings.

4. “Les robots cherchent la petite bete”, by Emmanuelle Jacquet, 2006. 5min, Tele Suisse Ro-mande/Nuovo. Public broadcast in Switzerland and Belgium (TV5).

5. “Alice au pays des cafards / Wenn Kakerlaken Freunde werden”, by Jean-Pierre Gibrat, 2006.52min, Trans Europe Film, ARTE France/Germany, CNRS Images/Media. Public broadcastin France and Germany.

Exhibitions

1. “Endo-Exo”, a 33x12 feet kinetic sculpture designed by Michael Theodore using hardwaredeveloped in Correll’s lab was exhibited in David B. Smith’s gallery in Denver for one monthduring May to June 2013.

2. The“Swarm Wall”, a 40x12 feet installation designed by Michael Theodore and using hardwaredeveloped in Correll’s lab, was exhibited in CU’s Art Museum for one month from June toJuly 2012.

3. The inspection experiment (PhD thesis work) was featured 10 days long running 20 robots for10 hours a day at an exhibition “Consciences l’oeuvre” taking place in a museum in Lausanneduring the Swiss wide festival “Science et Cite” 2005, organized every four years.

Community Hardware and Software

1. Open-source textbook “Introduction to Autonomous Robots” available on github.com and inprint via Amazon.com.

2. Open-source swarm robotic platforms “Droplets”.

3. Open-Source robotic platform “PrairieDog” for research and education.

4. Developer of SwisTrack, a tracking tool for multi-unit robotic and biological research. Thesoftware is platform independent and is currently being used by various researchers from therobotics and biology community, and continuously improved by researchers at DISAL EPFL,MIT and industry. More information on http://swistrack.sourceforge.net.

Teaching

Classes

Correll’s average instructor rating is 5.05 (Fall 2009-Spring 2014). Lecture notes, screen castsand illustrations for his robotics curriculum consisting of CSCI3302 2 and CSCI4302 3 are availableonline as well as as open source textbook.

• “Swarm Intelligence”, CSCI4830/CSCI7000, Spring 2016.

• “Introduction to Robotics”, CSCI 3302 (formerly “Special Topics in Computer Science”),Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Maymester 2016, aver-age “course overall” rating 4.43.

• “Robotic Materials”, CSCI7000, Fall 2014.

• “Materials that think”, GEEN1400, Spring 2014, Spring 2015,“course overall” 5.5.

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• “Advanced Robotics”, CSCI 4302 (formerly “Special Topics in Computer Science”), Fall 2010,Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, average “course overall” 5.075.

• “Multi-Robot Systems”, Special topics in CS course (Boulder), Fall 2009, course overall 4.7.

• “The Distributed Robotics Garden”, undergraduate and graduate credits in MIT’s course 6(EECS) with Prof. Daniela Rus, Fall 2008

Post-Docs

• Past (2): Dr. Timothy Caldwell (September 2013-September 2015), now at Zoox. Dr. DustinReishus (September 2010-July 2013), now at Google.

PhD students

• Graduated (7): Dr. Dana Hughes (Fall 2012-Spring 2018) now Post-Doc at Carnegie Mel-lon University, Dr. Halley Profita (Fall 2012-Spring 2017) now at Apple Inc., Dr. AndyMcEvoy (Fall 2012-Spring 2017) now at PickNik LLC, Dr. David Coleman (Fall 2012-Fall2016), founder at PickNik LLC, Dr. Anshul Kanakia (Fall 2011-Fall 2015), now at MicrosoftResearch, Dr. Erik Komendera (Fall 2010-Fall 2014), now Assistant Professor in MechanicalEngineering at Virginia Tech, Dr. Michael Otte (Fall 2009-Fall 2011) now Assistant Professorin Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland College Park.

• Current (6): James Watson (Fall 2018-), Khoi Ly (Fall 2017-), Sarah Aguasvivas (Fall 2017-),Yang Li (Fall 2015-), Nicholas Farrow (Fall 2013-), John Klingner (Fall 2012-), Heather Hava(Fall 2012-),

Master’s thesis supervision

• Jorge Canardo Alastuey (Fall 2015 - Summer 2016), Daniel Zukowski (Fall 2015-Spring 2016),Vijeth Rai (Fall 2010 - Fall 2011 ), now PhD student at the University of Washington, EPFL:Patrick Amstutz (SS 2006-2007), Samuel Rutishauser (SS 2006-2007), Gregory Mermoud (WS2005-2006), Amanda Prorok (WS 2005-2006).

Undergraduate research supervision

Audrey Randall (Spring 2016-Fall 2016), Regina Jingwen (Sprint 2016-Fall 2016), Lauren McIn-tire (Sprint 2016-Fall 2016), Cory Morales (Summer 2015), Parker Evans (Fall 2014), Blake Reimer(Summer 2014-Fall 2014), Ariel Hoffman (Fall 2013-Spring 2014, DLA/NSF REU), Xingjie Zhong(Fall 2013-Spring 2014, DLA/NSF REU), Samuel Beckett (Summer 2012, NSF DREU), MichaelBeam (Fall 2012, NSF REU), Britta Ulm (Fall 2012, NSF REU), Henrey Horsey (Summer 2012,NSF REU, Oberlin college), Christopher Johnson (Summer 2012, NSF REU), Brian McDonald(Fall 2009-Fall 2010, UROP), Joseph Maniaci (Fall 2009, UROP), Daniel Sutton (Senior thesis,2009-2010)

Highschool interns

• Sarah Radzihovsky (Summer 2014/2015) now at Stanford University, Eliza Cornell (Summer2013) now at Stanford University, Naren Dasan (Summer 2013) now at University of Illinoisat Urbana Champaign

Service

Conference Organization

• General chair, International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS),2018.

• Organizer, 2nd Workshop on Robotic Materials, Keck Center at the National Academy of Sci-ence, Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium / ComputingResearch Association, April 2018

• Organizer, Workshop on Robotic Materials, University of Colorado at Boulder, with RobShepherd, Cornell, and Kris Pister, Berkeley, sponsored by ARO/AFOSR/CU in March,2017.

• Social committee, Gordon Conference on Multi-functional Materials and Structures, 2016.

• Technical Program Co-Chair for the International Conference on Nano-Networks (NANO-NETS), Boston, 2008, 2009.

Internal

• Member of the CS department’s ABET task force lead by Richard Han

• Search committee member “Robotics”, Fall 2016, Department of Computer Science

• Search committee member “Controls” Fall 2013, Department of Electrical Engineering

• Search committee member “Cyber-Physical Systems” Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Department ofComputer Science

• Founding member of the“Material Science Engineering”task force at CU led by Prof. Christo-pher Bowman.

• Graduate Committee member 2009-2012.

Editing

• Publication Chair, International Conference on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems(DARS), 2010, published as monograph in the“Springer Tracts on Advanced Robotics” series.

• Guest Editor, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer Verlag. Special issue on SwarmRobotics (with Roderich Gross), 2010.

Session Chair

• Discussion Leader, Gordon Conference on Multi-functional Materials, Spring 2018

• Multifunctional Composites Symposium 8 at the 19th International Conference on CompositeMaterials (ICCM), 2013.

• International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2008, 2014.

• Poster Spotlight Session on “Evolution” and “Cognition, Emotion and Behaviour” at theInternational Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), 2008.

Program Committee

• Associate Editor, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011,2012, 2013, 2015, 2016.

• Associate Editor, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010, 2011,2012, 2014, 2015, 2016.

• Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016.

• Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016

• Spatial Computing Workshop at AAMAS 2013.

• MoNaCom Workshop at INFOCOMM 2011.

• Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2010, 2011, 2012.

• IEEE Swarm-Intelligence Symposium (SIS), 2005.

Review (selection)

• Goverment: National Science Foundation, Airforce Office of Scientific Research, Army Re-search Office, Swiss National Science Foundation, French Research Commission, HelmholtzGesellschaft (German).

• Journals: ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Advanced Materials, ASME Transactionson Mechatronics, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Elsevier), Adaptive Control and SignalProcessing (Wiley), Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (Springer), IEEE Roboticsand Automation Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (IEEE press), Intelligent ServiceRobotics (Springer), Interaction Studies (John Benjamins Publishing Company), Interna-tional Journal of Robotics Research (Sage), Science Robotics (AAAS), Swarm-Intelligence(Springer Verlag), Robotica (Cambridge University Press).

• Conferences: American Control Conference (ACC), International Joint Conference on Au-tonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), IEEE Conference on Automation Sci-ence and Engineering (CASE), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IFRR Int.Conf. on Field and Service Robotics (FSR), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and

Automation (ICRA), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS).